In every journeys of our life there are many circumstances that we can encounter. There are many problems that we must solve and that problems will let our self to break down and surrender, but we are still here, we are still alive and still fighting for our dreams.

Last Monday February 17, 2020 we had our final defense for our research paper. Everyone of us felt very nervous and scared on how can we elaborate and properly explain and defend our paper. We felt so glad because we have done our research paper and we defend it properly and luckily it doesn’t have many corrections. We are so blessed because our sacrifices and patience has a good result. We are now near in our final destination which is to graduate and go to the last level of our student life which is to be a college student. So for now we are preparing for our self to wear the white toga and will finally say that we will officially signing off as a senior high students.

As a student it is not easy for us to balance our time to our studies, family, and friends, there are times that we can miss a thing because of prioritizing others. Life is not constant, there are times that some people will leave and forget you, there are times that people will no longer gives time to you. Mostly they are there to support you and help you, but there is also a time to accept that people will leave, people come and go there is no permanent in this world everything in this world has a possibility to fade. And in that time we can feel the sadness because even though we are very close for a long years but suddenly when time comes we will be separated and go to our different path and destination. But even though we are separated the love and memories will remain, and at least we enjoy our life with them and we have given a chance to have time with them.

I will surely miss my senior high school life, i will surely miss my friends and classmates, I will surely miss the bondings, the laughs, joys, awkward, sadness, and crazy moments that we have done. We solved our problem as one, we will also graduate as one. For now there are still time to enjoy everything, I will enjoy the remaining time with them. I will cherish all the memories and keep it to my heart. So now I can say that I am so lucky for having the opportunity to met this people and had given a time to know everything about them and to spend time with them. Thank you for the laughs and joy OLOF people. We are OLOF the best.

-Norhanifah Dipatuan

Every people have their own capabilities and skills in life, it is their choice of what specific thing they must practice or they must prefer to do. Life is a gift of God to us, everyone of us has a uniqueness some are talented in knowledge, some are in drawing, writing, painting, singing, dancing and etc., but for sure everyone of us has our own skills that let our life enjoy and make us happy by doing that thing.

Last Wednesday February 12, 2020 we had a activity in our PE class which is about rappelling, so sir Fajardo taught us how to do rappelling and what are the things that we must do in doing this activity, sir Fajardo taught us the first thing that we must do and how to us the different things that we needed to use in the activity. At first I felt nervous because it was my first time to do rappelling even though it’s just happened in the gymnasium , but I am proud to my self because I survived the activity, I am proud because I didn’t let my fear to push me away to participate to the activity.

At the end of the day every challenges that we may encounter will helps us to be more brave, every struggles that we may felt will let us to be more competitive. Even though sometimes we can encounter failure but that’s not the time to surrender and give up everything, our failure will serve as the lesson for us to be more motivated and to continue our goals in life. Letting your self to know and try the things that you doesn’t did yet will help you to enhance and improve your capabilities. To explore everything is to know everything, so life is so short help your self to learn and improve. Trust your self that you can do it, believe and be brave.

-Norhanifah Dipatuan

To live, to taste experience to the utmost, and to face life without fear for newer experience is life’s purpose.

Each of us has its own abilities and capabilities. Some people can do things that others can’t, vice versa.
Each of us has our own strengths and weaknesses. We also have our own dreams and goals in life.
And, life is a choice. A choice that everyone is free to choose.

But the question is, are we happy? Are we enjoying the choice we take? Are we really passionate with it?

And if not, bakit tayo nagpatuloy?

Well, to be honest, I am struggling of what course I’m going to take in the future. I’m scared what the future holds. A lot of what if’s running through my head.

As far as I remember, I dreamed to be a nurse when I was a kid. But, as I enter Grade 10 — it all changed. I was inspired by my brother who is now a licensed Electrical Engineering. And my parents supports me as well.

I cannot imagine myself as an engineer. Why? Well, I’m not really good in Mathematics. But, choosing STEM strand (Engineering sub-strand), gave me enough strength to stand my weakness. It gives me hopes to my dream.

This week is full of fun and adventure while learning. We went to SMC Main and visited some laboratories.

Achieving our goals will never be easy. There is no elevator to success, one should take up the stairs. Success has no shortcuts. Through this activities in our school, where we are able to visit engineering related lab — motivate not just me but those engineering students to chase our dreams and to be more passionate about it.

Whatever your plans in life, pray for it. Offer it to Him, He surely listens.

Have a nice day ahead! 💖

Fighting our dreams is not easy we can experience many circumstances and difficulties, but continuing of it is a challenge for us to be more intelligent and more brave to accept and face all the problems that we can encounter. Me as a student has a dream and to achieve this dream I must study hard and believe to my self that I can do it and I must fight for it. So in this week we had a two days of immersion in St. Michaels College main and in Basic Education Department about the Engineering courses and the tools ang equipment that are related to engineering.

Last February 4 2020 we had our first day of immersion in St. Michaels College main campus. And since we are in STEM strand in wich this strand stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and our sub strand is Engineering so we go to the different laboratories of engineering. We go to the computer laboratory and they taught us how to create a application , we go to electronic laboratory, and to the other laboratories that are related in engineering, we saw and touch the different tools and equipments, some of it are very expensive because the proctor said that some of the equipments are worth a hundred thousand so we are amazed and we really enjoyed the tour because we also experience of using some of the equipments.

Last February 7 2020 we had our second day of immersion in St. Michaels College Basic Education Department Civil Engineering laboratory to test and explore the tools and equipments that are related to Civil Engineering. Im so excited in that day because my first choice in my college degree is Civil Engineering and I know it will help me to have a background of what Civil Engineering is. We are very lucky because we’ve given a chance to enter the Civil Engineering laboratory. We saw the many tools ang equipments there, and there are teachers also that monitors the machines and taught us how to operate the machines and taught us also of what are the uses of it. They also let us to use and touch some of the tools ang equipment, and they also let us to throw a questions about Civil Engineering course so that we will be guided for our college journey.

It is a big help for us to have this immersion because it helps us, for us to be prepared and to be ready for our college journey and for us to have a little background of what is Engineering all about.

     Engineering is not a easy course we need more efforts and specially more time to manage all the problems and circumstances that will come up to us, but if we have hope, patience, and believe to our self then we can easily achieve our goals and what we wanted to be. Believe your self you self ang trust God plans.

–Norhanifah Dipatuan

Being a student is not easy, there are so many circumstances that we can encounter. There are many ups and downs and there are also many challenges that we should solve. Students are sacrificing everything to have a good grades and prove to their parents that they are doing their best for their studies. Some are committing suicide because they can’t balance their time ang handle their problems in school, family, financial and etc. , they can’t achieve their goals and failed their works.

Here I am as a student continuing my journey to achieve my dreams and goals in life, last January 30 we did our activity in physics which is about a circuit, we are grouped into four to three members and our group only have three members, two girls and only one boy. At first i thought that we can’t do it easily because in our group there is only one boy and boys are the best one who can easily create a circuit because some of them has already experience of doing it, but luckily in that day i was the one who is doing it because my group mate said that they dont know how to do it so I was the one who attached the all wires, LED, battery and switch and the other member of my group assist me on cutting wire, cutting they cheap board, and giving what are the things that needed. When we finally finished our circuit we attached the battery and turn on the switch but guess what the LEDs didn’t on so we feel hurt and disappointed because we failed, but one of my classmate suggest to try to change the attachment of the wires to the battery so we follow itand luckily when we on the switch our LEDs light and i was so happy and i was so proud to my self because I did it, we did it. Even though at first we think that we can’t do it but when we try our best and we still keep og doing it we finally achieve and made it.

In this generation many people are struggling on their problems, many people are not trusting their self, many people don’t show their self confidence and many people doesn’t exploring their self to their skills. That’s not the right thing of being a student we muat trust and self ang believe that we can do everything, trusting our self is the only key to achieve our dreams and goals. We may failed sometimes but we should stand up and continue our journey until we can achieve it and prove to everyone that we did it and we can do more of it.

A night having a time with my siblings and cousins, a night where we let ourselves to enjoy the surrounding, a night where we let ourselves to chill and feel the vibes on the street during at night.

A night where we are hiking going to seven eleven to buy ice cream, yes just for an ice cream, it’s so funny sounds like so funny because we only have a low budget. So we go first at seven eleven in Tubod by going there we are having fun, we are laughing, joking and etc. while we are hiking started in Mahayahay go to Tubod seven eleven when we arrived in seven eleven suddenly there is no ice cream available. So we planned again of where we are going instead and where our budget can totally fit for the food that we are going to buy. So we decided to go at Jollibee Aguinaldo to buy a coke float so we continue hiking from Tubod seven eleven go to Jollibee Aguinaldo. We are hiking in a long way just for the coke float it was just like ‘are we crazy?’ we are sacrificing to hike just for the coke float, but never mind hehe as we arrived in Jollibee Aguinaldo my sister immediately ordered coke float but suddenly again there is no coke float available. We look at each other and I saw their eyes expressing that they are tired. Imagine we are hiking from Mahayahay to Tubod seven eleven and then from Tubod seven eleven to Jollibee Aguinaldo just for the ice cream and cock float. So after that we decided to go home.

That night gives me a lessons that having a time with your siblings and cousins are one of the best thing that we can enjoy, even though we haven’t buy anything the important is we enjoyed hiking and it was a memorable night for us.

–NORHANIFAH DIPATUAN

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